Antwerp artists and the practice of painting on copper

Komanecky, Michael K.; Horovitz, Isabel; Eastaugh, Nicholas

doi:10.1179/sic.1998.43.supplement-1.136

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“…Moreover, Pb, present at the relative XRF spectrum, is attributed to lead white used for the background pigment mixture. Although zinc plates are not among the common metals traditionally used as supports for oil paintings [1,2,3], they have been extensively used in recent years for decorative purposes due to their excellent resistance to atmospheric changes [25].…”

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“…Vasari [4] reported that Sebastiano del Piombo made paintings on silver, lead, and copper, presumably around 1530, although no works on copper survive. Around this time, Antonio Correggio painted a Penitent Magdalen on copper and it seems that Parmigianino also did a painting on copper [3]. This practice was soon adopted by Northern European artists.…”

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Laser studies of metallic artworks

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Museum curators and archaeologists use analytical science to provide important information on artworks and objects. For example, scientific techniques provide information on artwork elemental composition, origin and authenticity, and corrosion products, while also finding use in the day-to-day conservation of many historical objects in museums and archaeological sites around the world. In this work two special cases are being discussed. In the first part of our work, physicochemical studies of an icon on a metal substrate were carried out using non-destructive, qualitative analysis of pigments and organic-based binding media, employing various microscopic and analytical techniques, such as Optical Fluorescence Microscopy, XRF, and Gas Chromatography. In the second part of our work, laser cleaning of late Roman coins has been performed using a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm, 6 ns) and a GaAlAs diode laser (780 nm, 90 ps). The corrosion products have been removed, while we observe increased concentrations in Ag, which is the main material of the silvering plating found in late Roman coins

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Laser studies of metallic artworks

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“…Several painters, mainly in earlier stages of the career, executed a few paintings on copper, but remarkably Frans Francken II (Antwerp, 1581-1642), like Jan Brueghel I, painted more than a third of his works on copper supports [2]. His paintings are characterized for representing large groups of people with mythological, biblical and historical subjects.…”

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“…Despite the first experiences by Sebastiano del Piombo, Correggio and Parmigianino in the 1520s [1], only when Vasari, Agnolo Bronzino and Alessandro Allori in the 1560s executed oil paintings on copper plates for the court of Florence, does the interest in this type of support seem to have grown. Soon it was adopted by the Flemish painters working in Italy that exploited this technique when returning to Northern Europe [2]. This expansion was probably due to the interest that artists revealed for painting on unconventional supports and also to the accessibility of copper plates for etching, engraving and enamelling [1].…”

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Paintings on copper by the Flemish artist Frans Francken II: PIXE characterization by external microbeam

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2015

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“…The practice of painting on metallic surfaces, in particular iron and copper, originated in Europe. An extraordinary example of this technique is the oil painting on copper supports, that started in the 16th century and had a huge growth in Europe during the 17th and 18th century (Graaf, 1972;Horovitz, 1986Horovitz, , 2017Komanecky et al, 1998;Wadum, 2017). Magnificent artists like Rembrandt, Guido Reni, Diego Velasquez, and Peter Paul Rubens among others, created masterpieces using such a peculiar technique.…”

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Multi-Spectroscopic Approach for the Non-invasive Characterization of Paintings on Metal Surfaces

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The aim of this study is to propose a non-invasive multi-spectroscopic approach for the characterization of oil painting artworks that use a copper plates as substrate in place of a canvas. Indeed, in the last decade, many studies have been conducted on artworks made of single materials (e.g., paintings, stones, metals). However, the characterization and conservation of composite artifacts has never be fully investigated even though many masterpieces were created using this particular technique. In this work, several spectroscopic techniques such as Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence spectroscopy (EDXRF), and high spatial resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), and Optical Microscopy (OM) were performed. The obtained results allowed to fully characterize the micro-chemical and microstructural features of the painted surfaces and of the metal plate. Particularly effective was the use of MA-XRF, resulting in the chemical map of the painted surfaces. Furthermore, traces of the mechanical preparation of the plate were found under the painted layers. Finally, the interface area between the paint film and the metallic support was characterized at a micro scale. This was particularly important in order to identify the degradation products formed by the interaction between the fatty acids of the binder and copper-based substrates.

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Antwerp artists and the practice of painting on copper

Cited by 5 publications

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Laser studies of metallic artworks

Laser studies of metallic artworks

Paintings on copper by the Flemish artist Frans Francken II: PIXE characterization by external microbeam

Multi-Spectroscopic Approach for the Non-invasive Characterization of Paintings on Metal Surfaces

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